{"id":43845,"date":"2018-05-01T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43845"},"modified":"2018-04-30T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T20:54:31","slug":"infinite-future-tim-wirkus-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/infinite-future-tim-wirkus-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After a Salt Lake City reading, novelist Tim is approached in \u2013 okay, stalked to \u2013 a convenience store by Danny, a former college writing classmate. Danny has a mysterious manuscript for Tim, which has quite the provenance story involving Danny in S\u00e3o Paulo on a dubious grant, local librarian S\u00e9rgio, and disgraced Mormon professor-turned-translator Harriet. The trio’s quest to locate obscure sci-fi writer Eduard Salgado-MacKenzie and his potential masterpiece wends them through California, Idaho, Utah \u2013 even planets unknown.<\/p>\n

In a rare production reveal, the full cast is named at recording’s end, including Michael Crouch as unsettled Danny, Jonathan Davis as softly accented S\u00e9rgio, Hillary Huber as no-nonsense Harriet; Phoebe Strole and Kristen Sieh crisply alternate voicing the book-within-the-book; and brief aural appearances include Sean Patrick Hopkins as Tim, with Oliver Wyman and Carol Monda in minor roles.<\/p>\n

While numerous narrators allow for distinct personalities, transitions sometimes falter. Accuracy can be a challenge, for example in an Idaho hot tub scene, Harriet’s dialogue is voiced by both Crouch and Huber during a three-part conversation.\u00a0Despite intriguing narratives, the result is an unsatisfying maelstrom more ear-numbing than enlightening.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Audio,” Library Journal<\/em>, May 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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